Heuristic solution of the multisource Weber problem as a p-median problem

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;íRic Taillard

  • Affiliations:
  • GERAD and ícole des Hautes ítudes Commerciales, 3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine,Montréal (Quebec) Canada H3T 2A7;GERAD and ícole des Hautes ítudes Commerciales, 3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine,Montréal (Quebec) Canada H3T 2A7;IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Good heuristic solutions for large multisource Weber problems can be obtained by solving related p-median problems in which potential locations of the facilities are users locations and then solving Weber problems for the sets of users of each facility. Resume De bonnes solutions heuristiques pour des problemes de Weber Multisources de grande taille peuvent etre obtenues en resolvant des problemes de p-mediane correspondants ou les localisations potentielles des facilites sont les localisations des usagers puis en resolvant des problemes de Weber pour les ensembles d'usagers de chaque facilite.